price discovery

price discovery definition - finance
The act of finding the price for a stock or commodity in a market environment. Price discovery can occur in open-outcry trading on an exchange floor, or it can be determined through electronic trading systems.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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